How to format your references using the Sexual and Relationship Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexual and Relationship Therapy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Macilwain, C. (2013). Halt the avalanche of performance metrics. Nature, 500(7462), 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides, G., & Reinberg, D. (2000). RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin. Nature, 407(6803), 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis, K. J., Gillson, L., & Brncic, T. M. (2004). Ecology. How “virgin” is virgin rainforest? Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5669), 402–403.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Aanen, D. K., de Fine Licht, H. H., Debets, A. J. M., Kerstes, N. A. G., Hoekstra, R. F., & Boomsma, J. J. (2009). High symbiont relatedness stabilizes mutualistic cooperation in fungus-growing termites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1103–1106.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Joule, J. A., & Mills, K. (2012). Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Joubert, L. (Ed.). (2008). Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays (Vol. 11). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cechinel, C., da Silva Camargo, S., Sánchez-Alonso, S., & Sicilia, M.-Á. (2012). On the Search for Intrinsic Quality Metrics of Learning Objects. In J. M. Dodero, M. Palomo-Duarte, & P. Karampiperis (Eds.), Metadata and Semantics Research: 6th Research Conference, MTSR 2012, Cádiz, Spain, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 49–60). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Sexual and Relationship Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 3). The Chance to Rescue the World’s Oceans From Climate Change is Drifting Away. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chance-rescue-world-s-oceans-climate-change-drifting-away/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2016). Amtrak: Better Reporting, Planning, and Improved Financial Information Could Enhance Decision Making (GAO-16-67). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Delaney, D. C. (2014). Undergraduate social work students’ perceptions regarding hospice and end-of-life care [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Friel, B. (2010, November 14). Where Will the G.O.P. Go Digging? New York Times, WK9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2013; Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Aanen et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Abbreviation	Sex. Relation. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1468-1994
ISSN (online)	1468-1749
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology